The lawyer the university assigned to Rae was a sharp, no-nonsense woman named Elena Marsh, who met with her and Beckett in a conference room on the third floor of the administration building on a gray Tuesday afternoon that felt, to Rae, entirely disconnected from the version of her life that still involved practice schedules and homework and the ordinary business of being twenty-one.
"I want to be direct with you both," Marsh said, spreading a folder of documents across the table with brisk efficiency. "Halloran's claim is weak on the merits. Bear's phone was visible, the recording occurred in her own office during a conversation she initiated voluntarily, and Massachusetts is a two-party consent state only for private conversations with a reasonable expectation of privacy — a workplace
